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seems like seagate has higher failures, WD has terrible a terrible warranty department. pick your poison
Can't help with these 3 specifically. I ordered som wd gokd drives. Which are the ones intended for datacenters. Price was lower. And I think it was 10^16 not 10^15. That may not sound like alot. But doing the math, number of bits on a raid6 of 8 14tb drives, basically going to hit 10^15. And they supposedly have firmware to handle vibration. Maybe worth looking into.
As for these 3, I would think they would all be fine choices.
I've personally just bought what is cheaper $/Gb if they're broadly equal then features & power, if still locked I have tended towards WD. But I'm not storing anything critical and if a drive failed, I'd be annoyed but that's about it.
Seagate for internal drives, WD for external.
WD. I've had more Seagates fail on me, but take a look at backblazes's data. They go through a ton of drives.
Had a lot of wd fail over the years. Since upgrading to Seagate exos only. Haven’t had any failures. Maybe due to the fact they are enterprise drives. Not sure. But very happy with Seagate exos
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I have 20+ of them, none have failed.
I also have 50+ Exos, none have failed.
The problem with relying on peoples past experiences of drive failures is that it’s a lagging indicator. That is we can only say retroactively what was better or worse, but of course that means little of current gen hardware. The reality is that the drives people see failing are always the ones they have. Backblaze data tends to be a little better just because of the sheer volume, but again, the fact that drive X1 failed at a marginally higher rate than drive Y1 doesn’t mean that drive X2 will fail at a significantly higher rate than drive Y2.
All this is to say that all modern drives are actually amazingly reliable and also that they will all eventually fail. Strategize your data usage with the later fact in mind, and then pull the trigger on whatever drives feel most useful to you. I’ve done builds with WD and Seagate Exos drives recently and both are still operating perfectly with no failures… but who knows what will happen down the line.
Exos are noisy, but they work great..
And the helium fill? Makes them sound funny